INTRODUCTION:-

In this digital era, our information is more public than private. The massive growth of internet users is increasing day by day. What we think we simply search it on the internet. Here privacy becomes a big concern for every internet user. There are many genuine reasons why an internet user should stay anonymous. Reasons ranging for new companies growth to hiding personal information while surfing the internet.

Ethical hacking researcher of International Institute of Cyber security says that internet is insecure place for everyone. While surfing the internet everyone should stay anonymous and always use anonymous services.

That’s where anonymous services are used. There are many web applications who protect internet user privacy while surfing.

Anonymity Comes in Two Essential Parts:-

Browser – This is everyone’s primary source from where an user enters the internet. Browser always track user activities on internet. It is hard to configure the browser manually for not to reveal user information.

Networking Components – There are many network devices that are used while surfing the internet. What you search on the internet the request is directly send to ISP (Internet Service Provider). Means that ISP can easily watch every internet user all the time and records it.

Anonymouus Services:-

P2P Services – P2P is a decentralized network that transfers data from peer to peer (users to users). This network has no server. It can be secure because no one is watching but can be potentially insecure as anyone can log information about data transfers through.

Proxies:- Proxies act as a gateway between an user and the internet. It’s an intermediary separating end-point users from websites they visit. Proxy provide various level of security to the internet user, but finding proper working proxies becomes hard. As not all proxies are anonymous, some are insecure.

VPN (Virtual Private Network) – A VPN connection creates an secure tunnel between two computers so they can communicate securely. It is essiential to use VPN in public networks. It can be insecure as remote server could log information about the data that you send and receive.

HOW TO BE ANONYMOUS ON INTERNET:

Here are some listed products which can be used to stay anonymous while surfing.

vuvuzela

It is a private chat application which hides user details on who you chatting with whom.

ANONYMOUS SEARCH ENGINES:-

There are many search engines such as – google which is the most common to search anything on the internet. But when comes to privacy, google lacks because google logs each and everything what user is searching using his search engine.

There are many search engines like Duckduckgo which is powerful. This search engine does not keep any logs. You can use this search engine very easily. simply go to web browser and enter duckduckgo.com

There are some another search engine startpage. This webpage is combined with google search results. The search engine is very easy to use it does not log any information. For those who are use to Google search engine and prefer not to expose their identitiy can use startpage.

HOW TO CHECK YOUR ANONYMITY:-

These websites tell you what information web browsers and the websites gathers.

JONDONYM:-

JonDoNym is the website which tells when any user visits the website. What website can obtain. There are tons of websites which try to gathers information about the user.

JonDoNym provide many features like signatures, cookies, IP Whois, tab history, plugins and many information which directly violates user privacy.

In the below screen shot, you will see the what information website has gathers.

WEBKAY:-

Webkay is the another site which tells that information like – Geo Coordinates, hardware and the software of the user computer.

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In the above screen shot, the website has shown many of the data about the user’s browser like software on which user is surfing the internet, hardware specification. The above information can be used in other hacking activities.